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Culture and Politics on the Couch: Lacanian Interventions 🔍
Thomas Svolos Palgrave Macmillan, The Palgrave Lacan Series, 2024
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In this book, Thomas Svolos tests the claim that a practicing psychoanalyst is afforded a unique perspective on issues of politics, social and cultural affairs, trained, as they are, to look out for that which is not readily transparent to a patient. This might be something opaque, something bizarre even, something that is part of the experience of the patient that they are not conscious of, what Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan called, at different points in their work, desire, libido, or, jouissance. It argues that by taking account, in one way or another, of desire, libido and jouissance, we might find another dimension to political, social and cultural matters, a dimension that is present, but generally opaque, to those who deal with them.
In a series of original texts and edited dialogues, brought together for the first time, this lively and accessible work offers novel insights on topics ranging from race, climate change and partisan politics, to science fiction and Bruce Springsteen. It will appeal to students, scholars and those with a general interest in psychoanalysis, politics, cultural studies and critical theory.
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Switzerland, Switzerland
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Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
Part I: Introductory Remarks on Psychoanalytic Interpretation
1: Interpretation in the Discourse of the Psychoanalyst and the Discourse of the University
Part II: Identity
2: New Forms of Identity and Groups in Postmodernity
Part III: Reading Civilization and Its Discontents in the Twenty-First Century
3: What Use for Civilization and Its Discontents Today?
4: Seven Psychoanalytic Hypotheses on the Pandemic Discontent
Part IV: The Horizon of Subjectivity of Our Time
5: Psychoanalysis
5.1 The Body in the Virtual Psychoanalytic Experience
5.2 History and the Link of the Analytic Act with Civilization
5.3 The Empire of Images and the Counterbalance of Desire
6: American Partisan Politics
6.1 The Unconscious in Play in Voting Today
6.2 Bury the Hatchet
7: Immigration
7.1 Stranger in a Melting Pot
8: Climate Change
8.1 Psychoanalysis, Science Fiction, and Climate Change
8.2 A Filthy and Disordered World
9: Race
9.1 Signifiers of Race Matter
10: Psychoanalysis in Culture
10.1 “The Boss” and Psychoanalysis
Part V: Concluding Theoretical Remarks on Psychoanalysis and Society
11: The Personal and the Political
Works Cited
Index
date open sourced
2024-09-10
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